A new hotel and serviced apartments are set to be built in the Jewellery Quarter after a long-running plan to regenerate a 'bomb site' car park went back to the drawing board.

Sterling Property Ventures has been planning to build on Birmingham City Council's Ludgate Hill Car Park for several years and in 2015 unveiled plans for more than 300 apartments and around 250,000 sq ft of new offices in a project called Great Charles Place.

Waheed Nazir, Birmingham City Council's strategic director for the economy, said: "Over the next 15 years, the city requires a significant number of new homes to meet the needs of its growing population and support its economic growth agenda.

"It is vital Birmingham remains attractive to inward investors by providing the right workspace as well as the homes and quality of life.

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"What we also need to see is investment in residential schemes and the council is looking to support those developments that help achieve our aspirations and deliver the high quality environments for our growing population."

James Howarth, managing director of Sterling Property Ventures, added: "We are thrilled to have finally agreed the acquisition of the Great Charles Street site.

"Our new plans for the scheme have been evolved over the past few months and we look forward to unveiling them in the autumn."